13 | On Creativity, Identity, Queerness, and Belonging with Filmmaker Jacob Combs

In this lovely, vulnerable conversation with filmmaker Jacob Combs, we explore the ways that personal identity evolves over time, and how a vast range of experiences accumulate to form the rich tapestry of the person each of us gets to become. We unpack our experiences with creative evolution, our mutual journeys of queer identity, and what it means to belong to both ourselves and to our chosen communities.Jacob's newest film – The Orange at the Seder - explores themes of queerness, chosen family, tradition, and belonging, and it will premiere next month at the LA Shorts International Film Festival. Which is super rad! As is the film itself, and so is this episode.Read the transcript at SettlingIsBullshit.comFollow Jacob on Instagram – @jacobdcombs https://www.instagram.com/jacobdcombs/Follow the film on Instagram – @orange_seder_film https://www.instagram.com/orange_seder_film/See The Orange at the Seder in LA! Premiering at the LA Shorts International Film Festival Saturday, 7/20 at 10:30pm (yes, it's late, but so worth it!). https://www.lashortsfest.com/Resources, References, and Links:Multihyphenate. Apparently this is a movie industry term for someone with experience and expertise in many different roles. It was a new-to-me term, and I love it. Let’s all embrace our multihyphenate-ness in all arenas! “Why Being a Multihyphenate Will Boost Your Hiring Potential” –https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/multi-hyphenate-70457/Multi-passionate. Whether this term has a positive or negative connotation apparently depends on which corner of the internet you ask. “Being Multi-Passionate: A Jack-Of-All-Trades and Master of None Or Is it?” – https://womensbusinessleague.com/being-multi-passionate/The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. Which has, as it turns out, been turned into a movie (if you don’t have the bandwidth for reading the book).Passover. The weeklong Jewish holiday commemorating the Jewish people’s departure from ancient Egypt. The name stems from the way that God “passed over” the houses of Jewish people during the 10th plague. https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/passoverSeder. A ritual meal held during the Jewish Passover holiday in which the story of the Exodus is retold. This is the event at the center of Jacob’s film. “The Passover (Pesach) Seder” – https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-passover-pesach-seder/Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance. The venue for the Seder that Jacob attended in Israel that planted the seed of the film’s story. https://www.joh.org.il/en/homepage/